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Tibetan Buddhist nun Den Zen, 51, and a pet Tibetan highland sheep at the entrance to the prayer room illuminated by yak butter candles, at Rongbuk Monastery, the highest monastery in the world, perched at the base of Mt. Everest.

Fadila Mohammed, 90, is helped to hold up her inked thumb that shows she has voted at a polling station. Polls opened for a second day of voting in Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year.

A protester stands in front of a police line during a rally near the Cabinet of Ministers building. Over 3,000 veterans of the Soviet-Afghan war and the Chernobyl nuclear power accident protested planned cuts to their social benefits.

A black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) swoops in for food at Dianchi Lake in the capital of southwest China's Yunnan province. Since 1985, tens of thousands of black-headed gulls have flown to Kunming from Siberia to spend the winter.

A Pakistani human rights activist lights candles to pay tribute during a demonstration to Pakistani soldiers killed in a NATO strike. Pakistan decided to boycott a key international conference on Afghanistan next month, widening its protest over lethal cross-border NATO strikes and exacerbating a deep crisis in U.S. ties.

Pictures in the News | Nov. 29, 2011

In Tuesday’s Pictures in the news, we start with a look inside the Rongbuk Monastery, the highest monastery in the world, perched at the base of the Earth’s highest peak, Mt Everest.

After a flurry of eviction threats, street protests and court maneuvering, Occupy L.A. remained standing at City Hall — prompting debate about the caution displayed by city leaders seeking to avoid violent clashes seen in other cities.

Elsewhere, polls opened for a second day of voting in Egypt’s landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year; artists perform during a Vietnamese and Danish street art festival in Vietnam; and Pakistani human rights activists pay tribute to Pakistani soldiers killed in a NATO strike.

Add stops in China, Germany, Cambodia and Ukraine to round out the report.